Excellent Idea of the Day: Forest Hopping

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A walk through the forest has taken on a whole new meaning in
Russia. During a festival of design and architecture in Russia's
Nikola-Lenivets forest, one company built a 170-foot-long
trampoline trail.

The firm, Salto
Architects, says its Fast Track "is an attempt to create
intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to
the local context, giving the user a different experience of
moving and perceiving the environment."

The designers cleared a section of forest about two football
fields long to install anchors that would hold a simple rubber
mat taut enough to jump on. Then they held performances and let
visitors test it out.

"Lawsuits and insurance issues aside, imagine this as your
morning commute everyday,"
writes the design site Knstrct. "Work would literally be a
'hop, skip, and a jump' away as commuters would breeze through
the forest avoiding congested traffic, loud honking and the
occasional collision."

Surprisingly, it's not the first trampoline-as-thoroughfare
concept. As
Fast Company notes : architects proposed a bridge akin to a
bouncy castle to cross the Seine in Paris in a competition.